How to Record and Edit Screen and Convert it Into Animated GIF

Animated GIF can prove to be more explanatory than videos over Youtube or any other platform. And creating animated GIF can be much more hassle free rather than creating a video. Recording a screen and making it a GIF for explanation can be more informative for someone.

Recording Screen with GIF Cam

GIF Cam is a smart tool for recording a screen and making it in form of GIF. With GifCam app work like a camera on your computer screen and you can resize the screen to record only that part of area that you desire to record.

Editing with GIF CAM

To delete frames/add or remove delays, click on “Edit” button then right click on the frame you want to edit :

Editing with GIF CAM

Saving in GIF Cam

After doing the recording one can save the recorded gif in 5 color reduction formats

Saving in GIF Cam

I am sure you would be delighted to see the a painting drawn on MS Paint using GIF Cam

Animated Cat GIF created with GIF Cam

Need more fun…??? Have a look at monochrome GIF created from a Youtube Video

Monochrome GIF created from a Youtube Video

Features of GIF Cam

Add Text

With Add text feature one can write some text, set the frames range, position the text, align, add shadow and change the font as well.

Add text on GIF

Open GIF

One can easily open a GIF that is recorded and continue editing over it and all the frames over it and save it

Adjust Frames Delay

Shift + dragging will add/remove delays to/from all frames (0.03 second is the minimum delay).

Adjusting Frame with GIF Cam

Disable GreenScreen:

Shift + Save Button(or any save redaction option).

Capture cursor

Useful for demonstrating the mouse interaction

Capture cursor using GIF Cam

Resize

Resizing frames by percentage can also be done with GIF Cam

GIF Cam 100 % Image

GIF Cam 73 % Image

Yoyo

Adds reverse frames

gifcam yoyo

Other Features of GIF Cam

Preview

Export To AVI

Custom color reduction

GreenScreen Paint fill

Mouse wheel support

There are many freatures of GIF Cam so try it out yourself and let us know your experience. Its a totally free software.

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